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The amount of money raised globally for investment in real estate last year was closing on US$200 billion and described as a “new high”.
In total, fund managers raised $193.7 billion of real estate investment capital – which includes $185.4 billion for non-listed real estate, a 15.7% rise.
Of the total raised, around $91.8 billion was yet to be invested.
The organisation behind the ‘Capital raising survey 2019’ – the trade bodies Anrev, Inrev and NCREIF – said the “surge in capital flow” reinforced an ongoing trend in capital raising for real estate and that just over 70% of the 203 fund managers surveyed expected capital raising activity to increase.
The research found:

Europe strategies attracted $83.2 billion (44.8%)

North America strategies attracted $61.4 billion.

Asia Pacific strategies attracted $26.9 billion (14.5%)

Global strategies and South American strategies at raised $12.7 billion and $1.3 billion, respectively

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